Tolbirt v. State
Supreme Court of Georgia
Indictment for murder. Before Judge Bartlett. Haralson superior court. October 9, 1905.
1Opinion of the Court
Fish, 0. J.
A. G-. Tolbirt was convicted of murder and recommended to life imprisonment, on July 12, 1905. He made a motion for a new trial, which was refused, and he excepted.
1. One of the grounds of the motion was, that the jury was improperly influenced to agree upon a verdict by the misconduct of J. W- Bagwell, deputy sheriff, and T.‘ P. Eubanks, the bailiff who-had the jury in charge. In support of this ground, the movant introduced in evidence' the affidavit of Bagwell, wherein he deposed, that he was deputy sheriff attending the term of the court at which the accused was convicted; that…
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